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Answer for the clue "Perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers ", 8 letters:
harebell

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Word definitions for harebell in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harebell \Hare"bell`\ (h[^a]r"b[e^]l`), n. (Bot.) A small, slender, branching plant ( Campanula rotundifolia ), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans , which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell . [Written also hairbell .] E'en ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. sometimes placed in genus Scilla [syn: wild hyacinth , wood hyacinth , bluebell , Hyacinthoides nonscripta , Scilla nonscripta ] perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers [syn: bluebell , Campanula rotundifolia ]

Usage examples of harebell.

Others are scattered on the mounds and in the meads adjoining, where may be collected some heath still in bloom, prunella, hypericum, white yarrow, some heads of red clover, some beautiful buttercups, three bits of blue veronica, wild chamomile, tall yellowwood, pink centaury, succory, dock cress, daisies, fleabane, knapweed, and delicate blue harebells.

Larks and linnets wheeled and turned with a rush and fluttering of wings and their sweet trillings pierced the silence, and there was the fragrant scent of harebells and wildflowers and heather on the lucent air.

A harebell, much as I have always loved harebells, never moved me that way!

I imagined the moors of Yorkshire when the Roman engineers first arrived: the heather and gorse, the pheasant, grouse and harebells flattened by the road builders who lay down a straight arrow of crushed stone in a straight path that sliced from one camp to another, the stonemasons following with the carefully cut limestone blocks, building so well that even today if you walk up to Goathland you can see a line in the turf stretching to the horizon, where nothing bigger than buttercups and daisies grow.

Serena was a pretty girl, with smooth, silky hair, end eyes of the colour of the nodding harebells that blossom on the edge of the woods.

She had planted rosemary there for remembrance and harebells to flower in the spring as wild and beautiful as Katriona had once been.

Like the couch, the room was circular, topped by its soft sunburst of a ceiling, with smooth walls the pale blue color of harebells, and a floor set with a pattern of little squares of dark blue and silver.

It was festooned with flowers: bluebells and foxgloves and harebells and daffodils, but also with violets and lilies, with tiny crimson dog-roses, pale snowdrops, blue forget-me-nots and a profusion of other flowers Dunstan could not name.

They even found crocuses and harebells just starting to brave their way up through the ice.

The first afternoon we were up here we went for a ride round Imogene basin, and were delighted with the wild flowers, which are quite innumerable--columbine, phloxes, blue gentian, dandelions, harebells, vetches, and fifty other species.

Wild flowers were everywhere, harebell, silverberry, and blue-eyed grass as well as wild parsley and yellow violet.

Purple asters, harebells and the tiny false Solomon's seal filled his vision.

I am aware that there has been a good deal said in poetry about the fringed gentian and the harebell of rocky districts and waysides, and I know that it is possible for maidens to bloom in very slight soil into a wild-wood grace and beauty.

Along the wayside, buttercups and daisies, late harebells, and amethyst clusters of grape hyacinth were still springing in the grass.

He wants the harebell pollen grains as part of a bargain, it is true, but the insistence that I must accompany their delivery seems out of place.